Iran Diplomacy Hinges on Obama-Israel Battle for Congressional Support

The Obama Administration has had many high profile rifts with Israel’s Netanyahu government, and the latest, centering on Israel’s opposition to diplomacy with Iran, looks to be an ugly, protracted battle.

Though Israel isn’t directly involved in the negotiations with Iran, their influence within the US Congress allows them to be a major obstacle to any deal, and with senators repeatedly pledging to defy the administration, citing Israel’s interests, it seems they intend to remain one.

So while negotiation continues between the P5+1 and Iran, the real battle for a deal is occurring in the halls of the US Congress, with the Obama Administration sending officials to brief key committees on the details of Iran’s proposal in hopes of at least convincing them not to sabotage the talks by imposing new sanctions at an inopportune moment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, is continuing his daily speaking engagements condemning diplomacy with Iran, insisting that more sanctions and more threats to attack are vital to show Iran they mean business. With Iran’s own hardliners loudly arguing the US “can’t be trusted” to negotiate reasonably, Netanyahu’s efforts seem to be bolstering them at the expense of the reformist government.

It doesn´t take Iranian hardliners to say "the US can´t be trusted". We can go back to the American Indians who had every one of their some 400 treaties broken by the US Government, at least once but usually multiple times.

Is there really anyone who trusts the US today? I believe polls show that the American people don´t even trust their government.

A super rich ability to generate super wealth, this is what the rich nobility of High Society is all about, as it is a gift from nature that passes only from father to son. In Israel for example, a dozen mansion owners have amassed wealth of such a grand scale that they have absolute control over all the economy, all of politics and by virtue of this such a rich and noble group has absolute rule over the enslaved people of Palestine.

I wonder how many of the Senators constituents, when confronted with the question of whether their elected should be acting in the interest of another nation, instead of America's will accept the Senator's protestations that Israel's and the US's interests are the same. They aren't – and more and more people are coming to understand that fact. The media, and those who have access to the media megaphone need to keep the message loud and clear.